New York · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (New York) receives grants from 198 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,627,220 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($6,433,334). 121 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 198
- Grants received
- $42M
- Net assets
- $45M
What Center for Constitutional Rights does
Mission
Ccr is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the united states constitution the universal declaration of human rights. Ccr stands with social justice movements communities under threat-fusing litigation, advocacy narrative shifting to dismantle systems of oppression.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Litigation - undertakes litigation to protect and advance constitutional rights
$7,111,639 spentof which $60,769 as grants$1,555,752 earned by the program66% of program spendingAdvocacy - publishes and distributes educational materials and provides workshops and advocacy support regarding constitutional rights.
$2,598,848 spent24% of program spendingCommunications - informs ccrs clients and stakeholders through the use of social media, digital platforms, compelling client-centered videos, the press and community events across the globe about the mission of ccr of standing with social movements and communities under threat fusing litigation, advocacy and narrative shifting to dismantle systems of oppression regardless of the rist. This department also maintains ccrs public image and its websites.
$1,069,039 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,779,526.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $33M to $41M (+25%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Ernest V Warren
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 50 funders to 76 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $6.7M.
44 of 198 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 198 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 33% · 2019 20% · 2020 13% · 2021 28% · 2022 16% · 2023 30% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
51% of CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
66% of CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS's funding base is broadening — from 50 funders to 76 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 63 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 31 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS?
- CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (New York) receives grants from 198 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,627,220 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($6,433,334). 121 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS have?
- IRS filings report 198 organizations giving $41,627,220 in grants to CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, 121 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,433,334 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 198 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing